Thanks for joining me this week as I guest edited Valleywag. Mssr. Douglas will be returning to Valleywag on Monday for more typo-free, grammatically-correct, carefully-proofread rumors and scoops. I had a lot of fun writing it, and had even more fun going back changing its to it's. »10/27/06 9:47pm 10/27/06 9:47pm

MySpace founder, Brad Greenspan, has acquired a majority stake in Flurl, an online video search engine. This is the first acquisition by LiveUniverse, which Greenspan founded to focus on video, entertainment and social networking. »10/27/06 3:55pm 10/27/06 3:55pm

Torretfreak reports, four underage admins of Finnish BitTorrent Track 'Finreactor' have plead guilty and agreed to pay fines of US$60,000 each. The Finnish equivalent of the RIAA, Teosto with the help of Finland's National Bureau of Investigation, shut down Finreactor in 2004, which at the time was the largest Finnish… »10/27/06 3:29pm 10/27/06 3:29pm

MediaPost.com reports Wendy's, the national hamburger chain, paid a marketing firm to flood youTube with ads under the user name 'Better Value Bureau. Wendy's spokesman Denny Lynch said the point of the videos "is to reach younger consumers, and do it in a way that provides entertainment values and humor."… »10/27/06 3:13pm 10/27/06 3:13pm

I was cruising youTube looking for clips of Jason Calacanis' keynote speech today at the Blog Business Summit. Some of the blogs covering the talk had mentioned Jason was filmed and hoped it would be posted online in the near future. I didn't find JC at the BBS, I found something much better, 1938 Media going off… »10/26/06 10:43pm 10/26/06 10:43pm

My regular day job is graphic design (if you guessed editor, you were wrong), currently I'm freelancing at a company in downtown San Francisco for the time being. The marketing firm is stocked with the newish Intel-powered iMacs, and being a designer those iMacs are mostly running the Adobe CS2 suite; Illustrator,… »10/26/06 8:37pm 10/26/06 8:37pm